Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think that's a packaging error. From my point of view, once a user > is created it should never be deleted. Happens automatically e.g. during a reinstallation. E.g. have /srv/data with TiB of data owned by service user A with dynamic uid 234. Something foobars your system (disk error in system partition, somebody deleted /lib, perhaps intrusion) and after reinstallation the user A has suddenly an uid of 198. > Besides, there are countries (Italy for example, but I think > Sarbanes-Oaxley in the US may say something similar) where there > are laws that dictate how to manage users and declare that users > should never deleted but disabled. Without being sure, I think this is about accounts of natural persons but not of service users. Enrico
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